Neither ideologues nor agnostics: : alternative voters' belief system in an age of partisan politics

摘要: How do Americans organize their political beliefs? This article argues that party polarization and the growing prominence of moral issues in recent decades have catalyzed different responses by groups Americans. The investigates systematic heterogeneity organization attitudes using relational class analysis, a graph-based method for detecting multiple patterns opinion survey data. Three subpopulations, each characterized distinctive way organizing its beliefs, are identified: ideologues, whose strongly align with either liberal or conservative categories; alternatives, who instead morally but economically liberal, vice versa; agnostics, exhibit weak associations between beliefs. Individuals’ sociodemographic profiles, particularly income, education, religiosity, lie at core ways which they understand politics. Results show while ideologues g...